Refrigerator.



J. EGLER.

REFRIGERATOR, APPLIOATION FILED MAY 29. 1911.

1,01 3,478, Patented Jan. 2, 1912.

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JOSEPH EGL-ER, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

REFRIGERATOR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed May 29, 1911.

Patented Jan. 2,1912.

Serial No. 630,205.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH EGLER, a subject of the Emperor of Austria-Hungary, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Refrigerators, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to refrigerators which are of considerable size, such as are used by butchers, saloon-men, florists, and in hotels and other like places.

The object of the invention is to obtain a refrigerator which is built up by making a number of frames which, when assembled and secured together by devices forming elements of the invention, constitute the foundation on which sheathing is attached to form the inner and outer walls of the refrigerator, and to which the several doors of the refrigerator are hinged.

In the clawing Figure 1 is a front elevation of a refrigerator embodying my invention, with the outside sheathing on one side of the figure removed to expose to view the foundation to which the sheathing is attached. Fig. 2 is an elevation of the foundation of one side of the refrigerator, with the sheathing removed therefrom. Fig. 3 is an elevation, on an enlarged scale, of a fastening device forming an element of a refrigerator embodying my invention, and Fig. A is a section of the fastening device illustrated in Figs. 1, 2 and 3, on line 4:4 of Fig. 3, viewed in the direction indicated by the arrows.

Similar letters refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

A is a frame made of end pieces a, a, attached at their ends to the ends of side pieces a, (1. Frame A is also provided with cross pieces B and b, b, which are, respectively, rigidly secured in place. The ends of cross piece B are attached to end pieces a, a, and the ends of cross pieces 7), b, are attached to the side pieces (1!, a, and to Eross piece B. The end and side pieces a, a are respectively provided with recesses a on the outside faces thereof, the purpose and precise location of said recesses being hereinafter more fully set forth.

, D is a frame, which I have heretoforemade of castmetal. Frame D is provided with holes cl, and E are bolts fitting holes d and provided with threads 6, having nuts F, thereon.

G is a frame constructed in the same manner as frames A but smaller and the end and side pieces thereof are provided with recesses of suflicient size and in proper location to form apertures in which frames D are placed when said'frame G is assembled with a number of frames A.

The several recesses on the frames A are located so that the recesses on adjacent frames will come opposite each other to form an aperture and a frame D is inserted in said aperture. hen so located the frames forming the foundation of the vertical walls of the refrigerator will have one or more recesses on the end pieces a and on the side pieces a so that adjacent side pieces. are secured together by inserting frames D in the recesses thereof and attaching said side pieces thereto by means of bolts E and nuts F, and the horizontally placed frames forming the foundations of the top and bottom of the refrigerator are secured to the vertically placed frames by said frames D which are placed in the apertures formed by oppositely located recesses on the side and end pieces of said frames and attached thereto by like bolts E and nuts F. When the frames A are assembled. and secured together sheathing H is secured to the inside of said foundation and sheathing I on the outside thereof. The door J is made and properly hung and the casing of the refrigerator is thereby completed.

hen it is desired to move the refrigerator, on removal of the sheathing Hand I from the foundation the several frames may be separated by removing the nuts and bolts E and F and said frames may be again assembled as before or with additional frames.

I claim 1. In a refrigerator, a plurality of frames which are respectively constructed of side and end pieces joined together and provided with recesses, in combination with additional frames, said recesses positioned so that when the frames provided therewith are joined together apertures are provided thereby for the additional frames and means to rigidly attach adjacent recessed frames to the frames in said recesses.

2. In a refrigerator, frames consisting of side and end pieces respectively provided with recesses on the outer faces thereof, additional frames fitting in said recesses, said recesses positioned so that when said frames are assembled together the additional frames Will fit into tWo of said recesses, and bolts extending respectively through a recessed frame and through a side of the'additional frames, and nuts engageable with said bolts to hold said frames rigidly together.

3. A refrigerator comprising a plurality of frames, each of said frames having ends and side pieces respectively provided With recesses on the outer faces, additional frames fitting into oppositely placed recesses, and

means to attach said additional frames to both the frames in the recesses whereof said additional frames are contained, and sheathing attached to the sides of the recessed In the presenceof CHARLES TURNER BROWN, CORA A. ADAMS.

' Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents.

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